Chapter 344: Water Dragon's Groan
Like the Japanese devils, they also use the Nanjing Massacre as an analogy with me, don't some people know what double standards are, then let me tell you, Chinese kill foreigners, I approve with both hands, foreigners kill Chinese, just can't do it, Kong Laoer's set of what you don't want, don't do to others is to let you use it for your own people, not to ask you to love outsiders, is it possible that in the future our country will have the opportunity to find little Japan for revenge, the army landed in Japan, knowing that those Japanese civilians will bring a threat, do you still want to talk about benevolence and righteousness, finally I repeat, Don't take the Nanjing Massacre as an example, it's a shame, it's not that you cynics use to promote humanitarianism, and I am indeed a narrow-minded Chinese, and I believe that there is only power between countries, if China has weapons and technology beyond the United States, and cracks the ultimate destruction curse of nuclear weapons, I raise my hands in favor of China's genocide of all hostile countries, people will not kill clean, do not cut grass and eradicate the roots, my world view is so distorted, my heart is so dark, Finally, I apologize to my friends who support me, I'm not in a good mood today, I'm a little angry, and there's only one chapter!
In April, on the sea level of the Mediterranean Sea, the flagship of the Great Qin Mediterranean Fleet, the huge hull of the Water Dragon Yin was shrouded in a layer of golden light in the morning light, and then several slightly inferior capital warships followed closely behind, breaking the waves, they are the leaders of the Great Qin Navy, especially the Water Dragon Yin, as the flagship of the Grand Governor Zhou Yu, has an incomparably glorious history.
Turquoise waters. With calm waves and a fresh sea breeze, the Daqin sailors aboard the Water Dragon Yin enjoyed this rare moment of leisure, because soon, they would enter the waters controlled by the Romans. Standing on the bridge. Zhou Wei looked at the sea in front of him, his face was solemn, as the descendant of Zhou Yu, the governor of the year, he adhered to the tradition of the Zhou family, and never despised the enemy. The sea he was about to enter was supposed to belong to Macedonia, but now the Roman fleet controlled the area.
"Your Excellency. I heard that the Romans have built warships in recent years, and we have rashly attacked them, and once we fall into a heavy siege, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out. Zhou Wei's adjutant frowned, although Daqin's warships were stronger than the Romans, but as the saying goes, two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and the tigers can't stand the wolves, the Romans have expanded their navy greatly over the years, and the number of ships has far exceeded them. Once bitten by them, there is a high chance that they will be besieged.
"Let the observation post pay more attention to the surrounding area of the sea!" Zhou Wei looked at the sailor with a telescope on the mast in front of him, and said to the adjutant that this sneak attack, he must succeed, as long as the Romans' port is destroyed. The speed at which they could drop their ordnance was slowed down, allowing the Greeks to fight the Romans on land.
This time, Zhou Wei only brought five capital ships, carrying a large number of 'Nine Hidden Fires' One hundred and fifty years ago, after Daqin discovered oil in Youzhou, a weapon used for fire attack was made by Taoist alchemists mixed with sulfur and other substances, and the effect was similar to that of incendiary bombs, but this weapon was not unique to Daqin, and the Greeks also made similar weapons. It was called Greek fire and was indirectly mastered by the Romans. The aim was to destroy the ports built by the Romans along the Macedonian coastline.
With the entry into the waters of the Roman-controlled territory, the sailors entered a state of alert on the water dragon Yin and the remaining five Great Qin warships. No one knew if they would encounter the Roman patrol fleet. On both sides of the battleship, the black hole is exposed, and the ballista that can fire stone projectiles has been pushed out, although weapons such as artillery have not yet been developed, but the ballista that can attack from a distance has still become the main weapon of the battleship, and the reason why the battleship of Daqindi is stronger than the Roman navy is mainly because the hull is huge, and it can carry more and heavier ballistas, because the ballista wants to increase the range, it will inevitably become larger in size.
Zhou Xian's water dragon Yin, 149 meters long, 56 meters wide, with nine masts and twelve sails, full load displacement of up to 22848, can carry 9824 tons, is a veritable giant war years ago after four years of reconstruction, when Rome in Asia Trophy in the battle for hegemony to Daqin, although the water dragon Yin did not participate in the naval battle at that time, but the Romans are still full of awe of this battleship, because the huge hull of the water dragon is nearly twice as long as the Romans' largest flagship, For huge things, human beings always have an instinctive fear, not to mention the three layers of the water dragon yin, a total of nearly three hundred heavy ballistas, on the hull of twelve heavy stone throwers, can be hundreds of pounds of boulders thrown two thousand meters away, it can be said that it has the strongest warship firepower in this era, but such a huge battleship, the cost is also expensive, after the water dragon yin was rebuilt, the local fleet of Daqin also moved to replace the flagship with this sea giant, but the cost of the hull of 50 million gold baht, Let Juntang finally veto the proposal of the home fleet, and emphasized that the Water Dragon Yin was the flagship of the Grand Governor Zhou Yu back then, and as a symbol of guarding the Mediterranean Sea and defending the hegemony of Great Qin, it was changed like this, so you don't have to think about it.
Zhou hoped that they would be lucky not to encounter the Roman patrol fleet, and that they would be able to stay up into the night, so that they would be able to take advantage of the darkness to approach the nearest harbor and complete the sneak attack. However, it was clear that his luck was not good, and less than half an hour after entering the waters controlled by the Roman navy, they encountered the Roman light patrol fleet, and the Roman navy had been following the Greek system until the Great Qin intervened in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor
It was only a slight change, mainly with the fast three-pulp ships, and the horns of the ships after the main battle hit and jumped gangs, until one hundred and fifty years ago, the Great Qin fleet sailed into the Mediterranean Sea and swept the Roman navy, the Romans realized that they were far behind in terms of navy, and the light ships based on speed and the heavy warships of Daqin did not fight at all, and since then, the Romans began to study how to build large warships, but they have never been able to build ships comparable to the warships of Daqin, However, after acquiring the technology of Greek fire, they came up with a new tactical application of high-speed three-pulp warships. Therefore, in the current Roman navy, the number of large ships accounts for only one-third, and the rest are still traditional three-pulp ships, but they are faster and more maneuverable. Now the Hydro Dragon's Soul is encountering this extremely high-speed tritar ship, and the Romans' patrolling navy has seen the huge hull of the Hydrosaurus. Almost without thinking about it, he ran away.
"My lord, our whereabouts have been revealed, do we want to continue?" Looking at the Roman patrol navy that was fleeing quickly, the adjutant walked in front of Zhou Wei, and the speed of the water dragon chant was not slow if it raised its twelve sails in a tailwind, but now the sky was clear. The sea breeze was as smooth as it was not, and the mobility was so poor that it would be humiliating to be besieged by the Romans, who were mostly in the vicinity, with their near-scoundrel tactics.
Zhou Wei looked at the windless sea, and his bronzed face showed an angry expression, but he quickly regained his composure, "Retreat, return to sail, and wait until our native fleet arrives." You have to let them know it's awesome. "For the rogue tactics of the Romans, Zhou Wei has no way to crack it, since he can't sneak attack, he can only retreat first.
Not long after the water dragon retreated, a dense Roman high-speed tri-pulp ship appeared on the sea, looking at the empty sea. Among these high-speed three-pulp ship groups, a huge ship about half the size of the water dragon yin, the Roman admiral, Pang Ning couldn't help but sigh that his luck was too bad, like today's waveless weather is the most suitable for high-speed three-pulp ship combat, if Daqin's water dragon yin does not retreat, he is sure to sink this giant ship that symbolizes Daqin's hegemony in the Mediterranean, but unfortunately he lost this opportunity.
"Intensify patrols. They will come to the land again. Pang Ning shouted to his lieutenant, and then walked back to the cabin, the Empire's current operations in the Macedonian region are not going well, and the sudden appearance of the Great Qin General with the Spartans and Macedonians has made the Roman legions ashore helpless. For more than half a month, I couldn't even leave the beach where I landed. If he could defeat the combined navy of Great Qin and Greece at sea and open up the situation, he would undoubtedly go one step further and be promoted to the rank of marshal.
Three days later, Chen Qingzhi received a message from Greece in Macedonia, that the surprise attack on Zhou Wei had failed, and that the Roman navy was patrolling the sea and ground too intensively, and it was difficult for them to enter the Macedonian coast and burn down the seaport built by the Romans without alarming the Romans.
"The deterrent is enough, but the mobility is too poor!" After reading the letter in his hand, Chen Qingzhi sighed lightly, looked at the sand table in front of him, he understood Zhou Wei's scruples, in the absence of sea breeze, the speed of the water dragon Yin is much slower than the high-speed three-pulp ships of the Romans, once it encounters the Roman navy, those high-speed three-pulp ships can calmly tilt the Greek fire on the outer sea surface of the sea, ignite the sea surface, to deter, and then the water dragon Yin will be trapped in a fixed sea area, without the same high-speed light ship escort, The tactics that the Romans came up with could indeed limit the power of the water dragon chant, thinking of this, Chen Qingzhi couldn't help frowning, and said to himself, "Is it so difficult that you really have to wait for other fleets to come over from the mainland to break this deadlock?" ”
"Ziyun, what do you mean by retreating?" A thunderous voice suddenly sounded outside the tent, and then Ran Min lifted the curtain and walked in, behind him was a group of Spartan generals, they were all loyal supporters of Ran Min, Ran Min said one, they would never say two.
"That's what it means to retreat, I want to shrink my forces and go back to the interior to deploy defenses." Chen Qingzhi knew that Ran Min and this group of Spartans were dissatisfied, in the past half a month, they had stubbornly suppressed the 100,000 Roman legions that had landed on the beach, and now he suddenly said that he wanted to retreat and give up the good situation in front of him, they must not have figured it out, even if it was Ran Min, he had always been good at the battle formation and neglected the entire battle situation.
Ran Min watched Chen Qingzhi get up and didn't speak, he knew that his friend definitely had his reasons to do that, but if his reasons couldn't convince him, he wouldn't listen.
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"Our fleet's plan for a sneak attack failed." Chen Qingzhi handed the letter in his hand to Ran Min, and continued, "In the past half a month, the reason why we have been able to suppress the Romans to the death is because they want to build and protect the harbor, now their harbor has been built, all kinds of ordnance and materials are constantly being transported, and the rest of their army is also rushing to the rest of the landing sites under the transportation of the navy, what do you think we should do when the time comes, divide our troops to defend those places, or resist the onslaught of the 100,000 Roman legions who have spared their efforts here?" ”
"My cavalry needs space, and I also need the Romans to stretch their supply lines so we have a chance!" Chen Qingzhi finally said this, Ran Min did not speak, he was convinced, in the past half a month, he and the Spartans did not take too much advantage of the Romans, at most it only hit their morale.